Home » Search Center » Results: C. Andrew Hovan
Results for "C. Andrew Hovan"
Pat Metheny Trio + 1
by C. Andrew Hovan
Pat Metheny Trio + 1 Hill Auditorium (University of Michigan) October 8, 2005 Not letting any grass grow under his feet, Pat Metheny wasted no time after wrapping up a tour in support of the group album The Way Up before hitting the road again with his trio. First getting together with ...
Lou Rawls: Live!
by C. Andrew Hovan
With a talent for versatility, Lou Rawls can sing just about anything from jingles for beer commercials to spirituals (check out a recent reissue of The Pilgrim Travellers Featuring Lou Rawls on Mighty Quinn). In some ways, this chameleon-like character can be more of a hindrance than an asset. It's meant that over the years his ...
Tim Ries: The Rolling Stones Project
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although purists might hate to admit it, popular music has always provided fodder for jazz interpretations, ever since the '40s and the Tin Pan Alley favorites that supplied chord structures for the mercurial flights of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Since then, pop hits from the Beatles to Radiohead have become part of the jazz vernacular. ...
Walt Weiskopf: The New Mainstream
by C. Andrew Hovan
Despite the fact that his name doesn't show up on magazine polls and is equally scarce among those few jazz guide books on the market, make no mistake about the fact that Walt Weiskopf is easily one of the most mature and fully individualistic saxophonists and composers to come along in the last ten to fifteen ...
Moacir Santos: Maestro
by C. Andrew Hovan
Moacir Santos Maestro Blue Note Records 1972 Among a sizable number of Brazilian composers who are better known in their homeland than abroad, few can lay claim to a more substantive and varied catalog of music as that written by the great Moacir Santos. A prodigy of sorts, ...
Art Farmer/Benny Golson/Jazztet: The Complete Argo/Mercury Sessions
by C. Andrew Hovan
Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet The Complete Argo/Mercury Sessions Mosaic Records 2004 Times were different. Back in the '50s and '60s there were jazz bands that we might today call true “super groups, but back then it was just an outgrowth of a particularly fertile period for talent. As a result, ...
Alex Sipiagin: Equilibrium
by C. Andrew Hovan
Russian native Alex Sipiagin has been a first call trumpeter for several New York big bands for the past five years or so. A veteran of the Mingus Big Band, the Gil Evans Orchestra, and the Dave Holland Big Band, Sipiagin has been a favorite with critics but has yet to break though to the jazz ...
Wycliffe Gordon and the Garden City Gospel Choir: In the Cross
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although the trombone hasn't always been the most popular of jazz instruments, a varied and variegated stable of talented jazz trombonists can be found among the lineage of historical jazz artists. From the Dixie strains of Jack Teagarden to the forward-thinking innovations of Roswell Rudd, the trombone has been adaptable to a wide variety of stylistic ...
Conrad Herwig/Brian Lynch: Que Viva Coltrane
by C. Andrew Hovan
In recent years, trumpeter Brian Lynch and trombonist Conrad Herwig were part of one of Eddie Palmieri's better late period ensembles, proving to be an incendiary addition to a high-octane ensemble dedicated to the fiery hybrid most folks refer to as salsa. It's perfectly logical then for the pair to team up for a recent project ...
Ralph Peterson: The Fo'tet Augmented
by C. Andrew Hovan
Back in the early '90s, drummer Ralph Peterson was hot off an introductory phase that included a part played in the hard bop collective Out of the Blue. Formed by the powers that be at Blue Note upon the resurrection of the iconic label back in 1985, the ensemble saw several youngsters go on to bigger ...
